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Don't Forget To Say Thank You
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| Showing gratitude to your superiors, subordinates, coworkers, clients, potential bosses and anyone else who you come in contact with is very critical to keep the cycle of positive attraction and energy flowing yet it is very overlooked. People hinder their growth and prosperity by neglecting to show gratitude even in the smallest of situations. Below you will find a sample example of how you can effectively show appreciation and adapt this to your own situations. You will find that your clients, friends, employees will respect and call on you more often. The residual effect will be improved business and personal relationships which will result in more profits and an overall higher quality of life. |
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Lesson #5: Make Business Personal through Your Relationships
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| When DeLuca opened up his first Subway store, it was a one-man operation. Occasionally, however, he would convince his mother to help him out. Together, they would drive around town every Friday to visit their four main vendors – the people who supplied them with all of their meat, bread, vegetables and paper. But it was not to pick up any of the supplies.
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Lessons from the Green
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| Want to know how to make it to the top of your game? It's easy, if you throw out many of the things you've been taught over and over. Throw out all that John Wayne rugged-individualism. Throw out that prideful "I don't want anything I don't earn myself" B.S. (I've been told I can't say bulls**t in here). The biggest lesson we need to internalize is you cannot get there alone. |
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The Nine Biggest Myths of the Workplace by Penelope Trunk
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| I liked Penelop Trunk's interview so much that I asked her for more material. Here's her list of the nine biggest workplace myths: |
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Give Clients What They Really Want
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| Build real personal relationships with your clients--so they'll reveal to you what they really want, what could really drive their decision but can't be written in an RFP. |
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Coyote
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| Met a young man by the name of Coyote who works at the hotel in St. John's. He told us all the cool places to visit downtown. Coyote is interesting to me because he announced to me that he has no ambition, no desire to achieve anything other than climb rocks for the rest of his life. So he goes around from state park to state park and gets odds and ends jobs to give him just the means to work the rocks in the area. |
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Board Meeting Rules
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| Following are some board meeting rules that were recently presented to me and my fellow board members by a CEO at one of his first board meetings at a newly funded early stage company. I thought they were brilliant. Feel free to pass them out at your next board meeting. |
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Just like a small business should
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| John Jantsch at Duct Tape Marketing has a great post about Espresso Dating, the new partnership between Starbucks and Yahoo! Personals. |
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Some are naturals, but everyone can get better
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| We were recently doing Relationships for Revenue Growth training for some of the sales force of a large technical company, and throughout the day, we had great discussions about the power of turning business relationships into personal relationships. |
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7 Tips to Attracting What You Want
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| We all aspire to be, do and have great things. Yet most of us simply aren’t creating the results we want. We don’t have enough money, romance, success or joy in our lives. But what we need to understand is that greatness exists in all of us. It is simply up to us to pull it out of ourselves. We all have the ability to create the life we want. We just need to learn how to do it. Here are 7 of my top tips to jump-start your success and start "attracting" what you want into your life. |
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Tools of the Trade: LinkedIn
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| In most of my speaking and writing about building relationships for success, I focus on helping people acquire a relationship mindset through understanding and practicing four fundamental principles. |
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The risk of business relationships being personal
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| A young woman came up to me at a talk I was giving last weekend in LA and asked "What if you try to treat business relationships as personal relationships and people use personal things about you against you in business?"
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Do Not Hide from Unhappy Clients
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| Customers and clients can be a great source of feedback and insight. But it's not going to be smiles, smiles, smiles all the time. |
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Introverts - More of a Transparent than Social Butterfly
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| Did you know there is such a thing as a transparent butterfly? Recently a friend emailed me some photos of this beautiful insect that comes from Central America. A quick internet search will find you many photos of this beautiful butterfly. The transparent butterfly is more of a metaphor for an introvert than you might first think. No, not a social butterfly but more like the transparent creature. |
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Communication Skills and the Power of Words
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| Increase your personal and professional magnatism through Communication Mastery
and the words you select. |
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Ambassador/Communication Skills Mastery and the Power of Words
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| Think like an Ambassador for yourself, your company and your country |
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Mean Girls Don’t Always Finish First
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| You see in movies and TV all the time that the successful businesswomen are cold hard witches (The Devil Wears Prada anyone?) Well why does this have to be the case? |
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4 Tips for Developing an Employee Handbook
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| Company policies are often determined in a reactionary or even ad-hoc fashion and may change to suit certain situations. This is especially true for small organizations. This is a risky strategy and may lead to unwanted litigation from disgruntled employees if they feel that they are not being treated fairly by management. It is important to set the company’s ground rules for conduct and the best way to do it is with an official employee handbook. |
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Lesson #1: “Personal relationships are always the key to good business”
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| “I guess we keep on trying to look after the people that look after us. If we don't look after one another, we can't win. Now, you don't retain customers unless you have a combination of what I call the TIL principle – trust, integrity and loyalty,” says Fox. “I look at a lot of the people I initially employed. And the aspect of loyalty was 100 per cent. Maybe the ability was 90 per cent, but I'd rather have that than a reverse position of it.” |
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Resolving Unmet Needs in Relationships
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| Relationships can be disappointing. Often we look for something from others and don't receive it. At work this might be having a job well done or consistently achieved business goals go unrecognized. In personal relationships it could be our partner is not expressing love in the way we want to receive it. When we deeply desire or need to receive recognition or love and it doesn't happen, we feel hurt and conflict arises.
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The Key to Health and Happiness Lies Far From The Workplace
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| Many entrepreneurial types work themselves to the bone often sacrficing relationships with friends and family along the way in their nun-like devotion to their holy career.They often do this under the hallucination that "I'll be happy when I become successful." But a 70 year study follwing the lives of Harvard graduates revealed thatthe key to health and happiness lies far from the workplace... |
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Changing the Face of Personal Communications
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| It's almost impossible to go out and buy a plain old mobile phone anymore. We
threw tons of features/capabilities on them. We changed them from utilitarian
to dress accessories...statements of who we are and our importance. But it took
the guy on Infinity Circle to really change the keypad and screen. Oh sure the
iPhone is sleek and incorporates so many service capabilities (wonder why your
cellphone bill got HUGE?).
At Apple's WWDC (developer's conference)Steve will once again
strolled onto the stage with a clean black mock turtle on and show us his next
insanely great offerings. Including the 3G iPhone (probably). Neat thing is that
all of his offerings -- even those that stumble -- will all |
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What Creates Confidence?
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| Do you lack personal or professional confidence? Do you often wonder at how others can appear to feel so confident? Discover the path to both personal and professional confidence. |
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Should Leaders Have Friends at Work?
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| Relationships are essential, the core of the commercial world yet it's not uncommon for executives to avoid 'friendships' with co-workers. They often fear that having personal relationships in the workplace might compromise their ability to make tough decisions. So should Leaders have friends at work?"
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Top 20 Reasons to Write a Press Release
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| Any marketer will tell you that publicity is more effective than advertising for creating visibility for your business. And dollar for dollar, publicity is usually the least expensive way to get your name in the paper. |
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How Can an Executive Attain Peak Performance?
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| Using a classic article on corporate athletes, I offer some advice on how executives can consistently attain peak performance. |
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The Echoes Heard at Work
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| Coward. That word, along with others less printable, popped to mind when I heard a story about a friend's son. It turns out, he learned he was no longer employed via a text-message to his cell phone on a Sunday night. The brief message from his ex-boss informed him that his last work day had been Friday.
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Casting a Vision: Begin with the End in Mind
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| When you look at your hopes and dreams for the future – where you want to be at some defined point in time – what do you see? Is the road pretty clear before you or is the fog too thick? Of course, no one has the power to fully predict their future, but those who cast a vision and do whatever it takes to achieve it have a better chance of predictable success and satisfaction as they look back from the vantage point of old age. |
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Establishing and Maintaining Good Customer Relations
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| All structures are built upon a foundation. Truly successful engineers build their practices upon a foundation of strong customer relationships. As with every other purchase decision, individuals prefer to do business with people they like, with people who seem genuinely interested in them and with people who really care about their concerns. The business of starting and nurturing a relationship starts with the initial interview and continues throughout the firm's representation. It is critical to the long term success of the engineer/customer relationship that the engineer ongoingly stay in communication with the customer and keep them informed about the progress of their matter. |
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How Companies Can Heal Their Wounded Personal Relationships
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| A crisis is gripping the business community that is deeper and more far reaching than most people realize or even imagine. At the heart of the crisis is peoples ineffectiveness at managing their relationships. The root cause of these failed relationships is failed communication. None of us have ever been taught how to appropriately communicate with each other and thereby nurture our relationships with each other. What makes all of this particularly disastrous is that personal relationships are the foundation for accomplishment and satisfaction in life. Many people fail to appreciate the importance of maintaining their relationships. |
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Guidelines to Help Busineses Manage Friendships at Work
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| Recently, the pendulum has begun to swing away from the taboo notion that friendships at work threaten business results and toward what value may be inherent to having friendships in the workplace. Employers are rethinking old mandates that expected employees to keep their personal lives "outside."
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Why Customer Relationship Management (CRM)?
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| To recognize the value of customer loyalty, retailers are now re-building personal relationships with their customers. Customer has become more straight forward, intelligent and knows what he wants.
CRM will help you understand your customers better and provide them with what they want. |
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Actions and Attitudes and Fiscal Fitness
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| Henry Ford once asked one of his young automotive engineers, "What is your life ambition?" The young man said, "I want to become very rich." A couple of days later, Ford approached the engineer and instructed him to put on a pair of glasses, which instead of having glass lenses had silver dollars in the frame. Then he asked the engineer, "What do you see?" "Nothing," the guy replied.
Having made his point, the auto giant said, "Then maybe you should rethink that ambition of yours." The man had money right in front of his eyes, but he couldn't see it. |
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Inspirational Leadership: It's Personal
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| It's a simple lesson, and you're never too old (or too important) to learn it. People trust people they know, and they trust those who can somehow come across as a "business casual" person regardless of how they're dressed. If you want to develop more inspirational leadership, think about how you're sharing your true, personal self with your clients. You may have to lead with business solutions, sure, but don't forget to have a pulse. After all, do you want your clients and customers to trust you, or simply plug into your knowledge and download it? Isn't the relationship more important than the business problem you're solving...? |
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The Pitfalls of Being In Business With Family Members
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| Working with family members can be a very tricky task. This happens when you mix personal relationships with work relationships. There are all types of problems that arise with family business relationships: marriages, divorce, battles about the job, control over shares, and decision making issues. The business can actually be at risk for possible losses if the family members are no able to get along. |
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New Marketing Strategies For Online Home Business Owners
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| Learning what marketing strategies are available and implementing what works best is a crucial part of running an online business from home. This article will discuss some of the best ways to market your business. |
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Personal Strategic Planning
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| Improve your effectiveness and your time management too. Focus on the few things that will make a BIG difference |
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Devices Aren't Enough - Changing the Face of Personal Communications
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| almost impossible to go out and buy a plain old mobile phone anymore. We threw tons of features/capabilities on them. We changed them from utilitarian to dress accessories...statements of who we are and our importance. But it took the guy on Infinity Circle to really change the keypad and screen. Oh sure the iPhone is sleek and incorporates so many service capabilities (wonder why your cellphone bill got HUGE?). But to us it's just a phone...can I make a call on it...can I reach the person...can I hear the person on the other end?
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Young Men Struggle with WorkLife Balance Too
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| Is it true that women are the only ones in the workplace struggling to maintain a healthy work-life balance? It might seem so because women are traditionally viewed as the caregivers, childminders, and home-makers. Trying to balance all of those roles with the demands of work can truly prove overwhelming, even for the most adept multi-tasker. However, recent research would suggest that men - young men in particular - are also at risk for increased stress due to struggling with work-life balance. |
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Even Better Than Great
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| What aren't you thinking of that's holding you back or could help you evolve? If you figure out the answer to that, you won't be great. You'll be even better than great! |
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Time, Money and Life-Balance, Part 3 Life-Balance
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| Happiness comes from life balance. Happiness comes from a disciplined and reasoned approach to the "big pieces" in life. If time management is the essential first step, and if managing money is a critical second step, the third step to happiness is living a balanced life. |
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How to Pick The Right Coach
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| I’m often asked “How does one go about choosing a coach?” It’s not simple question but an important one to answer. It’s goes well beyond choosing a coach; it’s important to figure out how to get the most out of the coaching relationship once you’ve made that choice. The synergy of the relationship is what makes the difference to any well-motivated client.
If you want to maximize the value of the coaching relationship, here are some ways to do it that work very well.
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Throw Out Your Selling Language - Unlock Your Natural Voice
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| I was sitting at my desk last week when my phone rang. I picked it up and said, "This is Ari with Unlock The Game." The woman on the other end of the phone said, "Hi, my name is Julie Jackson, I'm with XYZ company and we are a...and we offer...". As she continued to speak, I stopped her in mid-sentence and said, "Hi, Julie." |
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7 Keys to Successfully Work From Home
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| Increasing workloads are forcing people to spend more time in the office, even when the office is at home. This means that many parents are unable to stay involved in their children's lives as they develop, and are becoming mere spectators instead of loving role models. The result is an undermining of their relationships, higher stress levels, a lack of balance and a generally unfulfilled life. |
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Will You Choose to "Wake Up!" to Your Life?
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| Choices...we all have them in life. Though sometimes our choices are really difficult to see and can be even harder to make, still, we do have them. The problem is we don't always remember this important fact. And who can blame us, really?
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Seven Ways that the “Main Street” Business Can Compete Against Much Larger Chains
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| This article explains the challenges that smaller businesses face in competing against the "big boys" and offers seven ways to succeed. |
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THINKING ABOUT BECOMING A LIFE COACH?
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| There are many points during our lives when we will probably seek advice from friends, family or maybe a professional. We may want help making decisions about a particular event or situation. The life coach makes available the kind of consistent assistance and support that may be lacking in a person’s life or difficult to obtain when consulting family or friends who may have quite different perspectives.
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Work-Life Quality and Balance
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| Work-Life Quality and Balance is probably the greatest challenge most of us face today. We refer to "work-life" as the holistic view that work and personal responsibilities, in practice, cannot be conveniently separated. Therefore, a new paradigm of self-management becomes necessary. The basic premise of this paradigm is "don't attempt to manage time, learn to manage your most important activities." Read on to learn more! |
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Develop Your Interpersonal Communication Skills for Success at Work and at Home
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| Do you know the top six ways to improve your communication skills? Interpersonal communication skills are a big part of your success and fulfillment with your work. Read on to learn how to develop your interpersonal communication skills using a variety of sources. |
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Build Relationships That Last
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| Follow these three phases of relationship marketing and networking, and your connections will be here to stay. |
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Making Business Personal
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| One of the most common mistakes people make when building relationships for career success and revenue growth is treating business contacts differently than personal friends. Just think for a moment about the people you work with on a professional level who are also close personal friends. Aren't they always more forgiving when you slip up and more helpful when you're in need than new acquaintances are? Of course! I guarantee your work will be easier, more joyful, and more successful if you make more of your business relationships personal. |
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Some are naturals, but everyone can get better
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| We were recently doing Relationships for Revenue Growth training for some of the sales force of a large technical company, and throughout the day, we had great discussions about the power of turning business relationships into personal relationships. |
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Strategic Tips From Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach To Improve Personal Communications
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| Personal conversations are one of the most common aspects of our human conversations. Personal conversations are an essential facet in almost every one of our relationships. And one might say that the quality of those relationships is dependent upon our abilities to verbally communicate.
Have you ever had any training to help you develop your personal conversational skills? Have you ever wished that you could be a better conversationalist? Do you realize that personal communication skills are one of the most powerful and strategic assets you can possess? People with effective communication skills have a real strategic advantage for business and social success. Your strategic thinking business coach has the following strategic tips to improved personal communications.
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The risk of business relationships being personal
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| A young woman came up to me at a talk I was giving last weekend in LA and asked "What if you try to treat business relationships as personal relationships and people use personal things about you against you in business?"
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The Pitfalls of Being In Business With Family Members
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| Working with family members can be a very tricky task. This happens when you mix personal relationships with work relationships. There are all types of problems that arise with family business relationships: marriages, divorce, battles about the job, control over shares, and decision making issues. The business can actually be at risk for possible losses if the family members are no able to get along. |
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Are You Building Your Personal Brand?
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| The term personal branding is relatively young, but the concept is nothing new. Before the advent of the social web and its many opportunities for personal branding we just called it our “reputation.” If you’re old enough to remember building your career before the Internet became social, our reputation followed us from job to job. We used personal referrals through the relationships we built to maintain our reputation. Our reputation was built by our achievements and the relationships we built throughout our career. Those relationships included our peers, bosses, subordinates, customers, trade association colleagues and people in our community. |
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How Companies Can Heal Their Wounded Personal Relationships
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| A crisis is gripping the business community that is deeper and more far reaching than most people realize or even imagine. At the heart of the crisis is peoples ineffectiveness at managing their relationships. The root cause of these failed relationships is failed communication. None of us have ever been taught how to appropriately communicate with each other and thereby nurture our relationships with each other. What makes all of this particularly disastrous is that personal relationships are the foundation for accomplishment and satisfaction in life. Many people fail to appreciate the importance of maintaining their relationships. |
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4 Commitments That Can Impact Your Success
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| Have you ever made a commitment to yourself or someone and for whatever reason, didn’t follow through? There are numerous definitions for the word “commitment.” The most basic definition is an “act of voluntarily taking on and fulfilling obligations”. This is further specified as a “personal” commitment, as opposed to a professional or organizational commitment. The voluntary nature of a personal commitment is what makes it so personal. However, this does not mean that a commitment has to relate only to personal interests, such as human relationships or core beliefs. Any objective can be approached with a personal commitment. A commitment can be given to any number of projects and causes, including an organization, a team, a faith group, or to another person. |
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I’ve Got A Secret
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| Try out this Super Secret Skill that will revolutionize your communications even more than your Blackberry©? Enhances your business relationships and boost your success! Improve your personal relationships as well, so you may even be smiling more at home.
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Mommies Need to Network Too!
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| Being a mom is one of the most amazing, life-changing and overwhelming experiences a woman can have. As you maneuver your way through the various stages of motherhood, networking may be the last thing on your mind. But networking is really just another way to talk about relationships. And strong relationships are even more critical during the thrilling and stressful days (and nights) of motherhood. These relationships most definitely include both professional associates and personal friends. |
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